i can deadlift more weight with right underhand and left overhand than with right overhand and left underhand. i kept on changing the grip every week, but now it's a bit senseless to deadlift less weight every other week.

what would you do? keep on changing or only deadlift with right underhand and left overhand? can this cause imbalances?

You have a dominant side so one way will be stronger. I just alternate my grip for each set. Use your strongest grip when you get to your heaviest set.

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I do 5/3/1. I warm up with the standard grip, and then switch to mixed grip once I hit my first working set. THen I switch to mixed grip, and ONLY do it the one way. When I am adding in some volume work(ie boring but big template), I will alternate grips. Typically going back and forth between the different grips, focusing more on the grip I don't typically use.

i can deadlift more weight with right underhand and left overhand than with right overhand and left underhand. i kept on changing the grip every week, but now it's a bit senseless to deadlift less weight every other week.

Deadlift weight each week may be helping your grip strength.

However, it not doing much for anything else.

If you want to work you grip, there are other exercises you can employ.

To follow up on Kenny's detailed answer, I learned early that if I went underhand with left hand I got a weird pain at the top of my left shoulder, but going underhand on right (happens to be my dominant) works and I have no issues.

It has been well over a year doing that and I just don't think about it anymore. Don't know what that pain was on the left, don't care, and don't think about it.

Kind of a tangent, but the only move I use straps on is stiff leg deadlift (which my trainer calls "nearly stiff-leg deadlifts"), because I definitely get weird pains if I go mixed grip, and I cannot hold the bar for 8 reps if I go double overhand or even hook grip.

I recommend farmer's walks. By far the greatest exercise for Grip I have ever done. Also works your traps and abs. Just pick up 2 dumbells. Hold em at your sides. Puff your chest out and walk until you cant walk no more and repeat. After 3 weeks, your grip becomes stronger so you can either walk an even longer distance or even use more weight

For me the grip is the limiting factor of the deadlift. The first time I did the DL, boy did my forearm ache. I kept massaging them between sets. By the time I did it again a few days later, my arms didn`t hurt so much.

But usually I can DL at my heaviest weights until the bar slips off my fingers even with the reverse grip. I stay with that same weight session after session until my grip improves and the bar doesn`t try to roll off anymore. No gloves or straps for me. Only tissue paper for the callouses.

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